Won’t be blown off course by revolt, says UK PM
LONDON: Boris Johnson said he wouldn’t be distracted from his government’s agenda after more than 40% of his own Conservative Party said they had no confidence in his leadership. “In a long political career so far, I have of course picked up political opponents all over,” the UK PM said on Wednesday, replying to questions in the parli -ament for the first time since the VOTE.BLOOMBERG
Khan re-elected as Pakistan Tehreeke-insaf chairman ISLAMABAD: Former PM Imran Khan was on Wednesday re-elected as the chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-einsaf (PTI) after his challengers withdrew in his favour. The election of 69-year-old Khan was held during the meeting of the party’s National Conference in capital Islamabad. After his win, Khan called on party workers to be prepared for a protest against the govt.
Harvey Weinstein to be charged in UK over assault LONDON: Prosecutors in the UK said Wednesday they have authorised police to charge former film mogul Harvey Weinstein with two counts of indecent assault against a woman in London in 1996. Weinstein is currently serving a 23-year prison sentence in the US after being convicted in 2020 of assaulting former production assistant Mimi Haleyi and raping former aspiring actor Jessica Mann.
‘Sri Lanka’s ex-fin min set to step down from parl’ COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s former finance minister Basil Rajapaksa has decided to step down from his parliamentary seat, even as the 21st Amendment to the Constitution that seeks to bar dual citizens from holding any top public office is ready to be tabled in parliament, the Daily Mirror newspaper reported on Wednesday. Basil Rajapaksa, the younger brother of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and former PM Mahinda Rajapaksa, is a dual American and Sri Lankan citizen.
‘Twitter plans to provide Musk with data on bots’ SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter will yield to Elon Musk’s demand for internal data central to a dispute over his troubled $44bn bid to buy the social media platform, a report in the Washington Post said on Wednesday. The news comes just days after the Tesla chief threatened to back out of his deal to purchase Twitter, accusing it of failing to provide data on fake accounts. The Post cited an unnamed source.